Zimbabwe, sentence 87
From Wikipedia, «Zimbabwe», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In December 1966, the organisation complied, imposing the first mandatory trade embargo on an autonomous state.
Who acts: organisation · What happens: comply, impose · To what, where: first trade embargo, autonomous state
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zimbabwe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (organisation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 December | case |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 complied | obl |
| 3 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 December | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 organisation | det |
| 6 | organisation | organisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 complied | nsubj |
| 7 | complied | comply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 imposing | punct |
| 9 | imposing | impose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 complied | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 embargo | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 embargo | amod |
| 12 | mandatory | mandatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trade | compound |
| 13 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 embargo | compound |
| 14 | embargo | embargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imposing | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 state | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 state | det |
| 17 | autonomous | autonomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 state | amod |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imposing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 complied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comply | past | the organisation | december | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | impose | gerund | the organisation not said here | the first trade embargo | a autonomous state | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embargo=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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